clipped from: www.quietfish.com Check out this matchbox advent calendar. Amazing huh? Alas, at the time I was planning this all out I was stuck at home with no way of obtaining the requisite number of matchboxes. I then tried making my own orgami matchbox/slide box, but they wouldn’t have been nearly as stable as the version that used authentic matchboxes. And then there was the issue of the time it would take to fold my own… it would have taken me weeks.
Ones with with felt pockets like the one shown here.
And then there’s this one … slightly different and v.v.cute.
You can make an advent calendar out of paper cones, and inverted cones.
There’s the cookie sheet advent calendar (cute, I guess, but I can’t get past the cookie sheet thing…) Oh, and speaking of magnets, there’s this one, that can be affixed to a magnet board. Gorgeous huh?
So here is my paper-envelope advent calendar in its full glory:
